799 is 17 percent of what number? (17% of what number is 799?)

799 is 17 percent of what number?

"799 is 17 percent of what number?" is a word problem where the answer is a number. Specifically, if you calculate 17 percent of number (x), you will get 799. Thus, you can illustrate the problem "799 is 17 percent of what number (x)" like this:

17% of x = 799

To calculate 17 percent of a number, we multiply the number by 17 and then divide by 100. Therefore, we can make the following function:

		17 ∗ x
		100

= 799

To solve for x, we first multiply both sides by 100 and then divide both sides by 17 to get the x = 4700. Therefore, the answer to 799 is 17 percent of what number? is:

4700

If we substitue "what number" in the question "799 is 17 percent of what number?" with 4700, we get this sentence: 799 is 17 percent of 4700. Since this statement is true, we know that our answer is correct.

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